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Coming off the bench

May 15th, 2006  |  by Matt  |  published in Miscellany

While Derek is away being blissfully happy, I’m going to fill in here at The Scoop. I’m Matt Waite, a reporter at the St. Petersburg Times and fellow Scoop devotee. I’ll start posting stories soon, but if you’ve got something you want to recommend, drop me a line at matt(dot)waite(at)gmail(dot)com.

We Interrupt This Blog

May 12th, 2006  |  by Derek Willis  |  published in Miscellany

For an announcement from your humble host. Call it a Scooplet, even: Postings will resume, well, this might be awhile.

Introducing Geographic Tags

September 20th, 2005  |  by Derek Willis  |  published in Miscellany

I’ve been quietly implementing a new feature here at The Scoop – a tagging system for posts. You might ask why, considering that I already have categories, but I didn’t want to explode the list of categories by adding dozens of new ones. But I wanted a way for users to get at the entries [...]

Something New

August 9th, 2005  |  by Derek Willis  |  published in Miscellany

As hard as it might seem to believe, there are some things that I haven’t been posting about but have wanted to. I’m not interested in upping the number of full posts that I write, so I opted for a brief link and comment in the style of Kottke, Rebelpixel and others. I used the [...]

The seat warming begins

July 24th, 2005  |  by Matt  |  published in Miscellany

In a moment of weakness, Derek entrusted The Scoop to me. I’m Matt Waite and I’ll be keeping the blog warm this week. Fear not, Derek and competence will return when he does from vacation. Suggestions, links, complaints and cash offerings can be sent to matt(dot)waite(at)gmail(dot)com.

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